Hollywood Hunter

The hot media discussion of Eaglet’s US$25 billion huge equity reward plan has directly led to the surge in both personal computer sales and Internet user access in these days. The Wall Street Journal is still on February 20 In an article in, the concept of a'new gold rush era' was proposed.

Because not only many employees of Eaglet will become rich with the IPO of this new technology company, but also more and more entrepreneurs in the Internet field will become rich overnight.

In the process of the "Information Age" marketing plan at the end of last year, the Westeros system has focused on publicizing many cases of relying on the Internet industry to earn huge fortunes. The recent discussions on the Eaglet Equity Reward Program have once again led to a lot of Internet Inspirational stories from scratch in the field.

Among them, an ordinary restaurant chef in Iowa, in the central part of the United States, used a full set of basic tools and software and easy-to-use data launched by Eaglet after more than a year of self-study with only some basic computer knowledge. Central service, a gourmet sharing website created in their spare time unexpectedly won the welcome of a large number of users. Recently, a 20% stake in a Silicon Valley venture capital of up to 15 million US dollars in huge financing, the website is valued at 75 million US dollars.

This middle-aged man in his forties, who once had an annual salary of only 50,000 US dollars, thought that he would be unknown in his life, but in a blink of an eye, his personal worth jumped to 60 million US dollars.

This is definitely not the only case.

Therefore, while proposing the concept of the'new gold rush era' in the "Wall Street Journal" article, it also further commented that this is a new round of wealth redistribution that starts without violence or plunder. The threshold is also very friendly to ordinary people, just like anyone could flock to the gold rush in San Francisco back then, as long as you have a computer connected to the Internet, you have the opportunity to create a wealth miracle.

Such news is good for stimulating the development of the Internet industry or diverting attention from the outside world on the large-scale employee stock ownership plan of Igreat, and the Westeros system soon began to contribute to the flames.

Simon and two Jenny returned to the West Coast from Florida on February 20th.

Then came Simon's 27th birthday.

A party held in a low-key manner is considered to be spent. I only invited some people close to me. I received a lot of gifts. Many of them came from women around me. This time, Janet was not jealous to let these gifts disappear, but forgive me. I personally opened the inspection with interest and commented one by one.

The production of the song "Young and Beautiful" continues.

Instigated by Janet, this time I plan to release it to the public, and will also bring another song "The Last Day of Bach", which is also being produced, and the female assistant secretly treasured it for a long time. Simon changed from "Overture of the Dead" to "Blizzard". The first pure music.

Never thought of making money.

So I planned to make the MV directly on the network platform, which is to increase the traffic for Yigrete.

Among them, "The Last Day of Bach" for Yulia Schulshkina uses a woman's solo dance as the MV, and the other two songs are impossible to make two Jenny appear in the picture.

Simon quickly came up with a good idea.

Video mixing.

This is a common splicing editing mode in many video websites in memory. According to the tone of a song, various shots are selected from many movies and TVs to compose MVs. It is very popular.

At this stage, because the Internet has just become popular, movie piracy is not so widespread, and video websites are even more impossible to talk about, and few people see wonderful video clips.

However, all these problems are not a problem for Simon.

Simon not only owns the rights to thousands of film and television dramas that Daenerys Entertainment Group has accumulated through acquisitions and produced in recent years, but also, if necessary, borrowing footage from other studios, obviously no one will refuse.

Of course, Simon does not intend to fertilize water into outsiders' fields.

Not to mention the longer-term copyright reserve, just the films produced by Daenerys Entertainment in these years are enough for Simon to make two wonderful mixed-cut videos.

The plan was finalized soon.

The first "Young and Beautiful" will feature beautiful shots of famous Hollywood actresses.

However, in order to avoid editing all the actresses who are related to him, Simon intends to start with the actresses of the golden age of Hollywood, Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, etc. , Until recent years, and plan to capture all the most classic shots, and as far as possible to Daenerys entertainment film library movies.

After all, after the mixed-cut video MV is released, it is likely to drive a wave of movies related to MV shots.

Even if you don't plan to make money directly from this song, this kind of peripheral benefits can be ignored or not.

For another song "Blizzard", Simon intends to make a mix of DC film universe highlights, from the original "Batman: Hour of War" to "Suicide Squad" at the end of last year, the tunes of "Blizzard" and the DC film universe series The epic temperament can't fit better, and it happens to be a warm-up for "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" at the end of this year.

Immediately after Simon's 27th birthday, on February 24, the long-awaited "This Man From Earth" was released.

Because it is the unpopular period at the end of February and there are no other high-quality films, the major theaters are very happy to put out more screen resources to release the film. Gaomen Pictures raised 3107 yuan to open the screen.

Prior to this, the action movie "Broken Arrow" starring John Travolta, which opened on Valentine's Day, had been in theaters for two weeks.

Simon was a little disappointed by the film’s reputation. The overall score was only 5.3, and he failed to pass.

Fortunately, with Daenerys Entertainment’s strong announcement to make up for it, Valentine’s Day schedule viewing is also considered a rigid demand. As the only blockbuster on Valentine’s Day schedule, Baige Wu’s unique violent aesthetic style can also be regarded as a North American The audience's eyes brightened. The film opened with 2638 screens. The first box office week from February 10 to February 16 earned 24.53 million U.S. dollars in seven days, and the weekly average exceeded 9,300 U.S. dollars, although it failed to break 10,000. , But also met expectations.

Subsequently, in the second box office week from February 17 to February 23, Valentine's Day had passed and there was still no strong competitor, the film fell by a fairly good 27% the following week, and it earned $17.86 million. The cumulative box office in two weeks was US$42.39 million, which is about US$8 million behind the production cost line of US$50 million.

Considering that this box office week film that opens on February 24th will be hit by "This Man Comes From Earth", Daenerys's publicity team predicts that the total box office of the film in North America will be about 70 million US dollars. According to the situation of overseas openings during the same period, the total overseas box office is roughly the same as that of North America, and the global total box office is about 150 million US dollars.

The production cost of 50 million US dollars, three times the global box office, happens to be a cost recovery.

If it is other second- and third-tier film companies, it will definitely be more difficult to face such a situation, because small studios usually have a tight capital chain and are heavily dependent on box office revenue. Once the box office loses, even if it just does not make a loss, it often You may run into trouble if you don’t wait for the late video tape and TV broadcast earnings.

Daenerys Entertainment Group has no such problem.

Because the body is large enough, the complete omni-channel operation has formed sustainability, which can not only keep as much profit as possible in the omni-channel range of a movie in the studio system itself, but also maximize its films Get rid of the dependence on the box office.

All in all, relying on the box office to recover the cost and directly enter the profitability stage later, this project is a success for Daenerys Entertainment.

With the advent of the Hollywood blockbuster era, it is difficult for more and more film companies to directly recoup the box office, and most of them rely on peripheral channels. This is why it is more and more difficult for Hollywood second and third-tier film companies to survive. Even if it succeeds once or twice, such as the Lionsgate Peak in Simon's memory, it will quickly go silent because of the lack of support for omni-channel operations and unable to form a cycle.

In addition to "Broken Arrow", also released on February 10 at the same time as Gaomen Pictures' "McMullen Brothers" which won the jury award at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

Relying on the reputation of the Sundance Award and the good reputation of the film itself after it was released, 513 screens were opened, and after the first week of receipt of 3.96 million US dollars, the next week’s decline was only 19%, and another US$3.21 million. A good curve means this movie. The small film with a production cost of only US$500,000 has been a big success at the box office, and the total domestic box office is expected to be between 10 million and 15 million.

Simon has always admired Barry Diller’s ‘tent theory’ when he ran Paramount. The blockbuster is the backbone of the ‘tent’, and other medium and low-cost films are the poles and curtains of the ‘tent’.

For a tent, only the backbone and pole screens are available to cover the wind and rain. Both are indispensable.

The same is true for film companies.

The key reason why large studios are more capable of resisting risks is that their tents are large enough to form a complete system. When large studios are further integrated to form a comprehensive media group, they will start from the tent. 'Evolved into a'castle', completely fearless against wind and rain.

Therefore, although the box office volume of "Broken Arrow" and "McMullen Brothers" is very different, Simon did not underestimate the latter.

Then it was "This Man Comes From Earth".

After its official release on February 24, as during the opening of Park City, "This Man From Earth" is still full of controversy. People who like it like it very much, and those who hate it are disappointed.

However, compared to "Broken Arrow", which did not even reach the passing score two weeks ago, "This Man Comes From Earth" is still mostly recognized, with a comprehensive media score of 8.2, which is already an excellent level, just because the film was written by Simon himself. It's not an adaptation like the DC movie universe project, and the individual is very strong, so it attracts a lot of different opinions.

After all, criticism of Simon must be more attractive to the public than praise.

All in all, it is not just the United States. In all the film markets that opened during the same period, countless media are talking about "This Man Comes From Earth".

Because of the content of the film, this argument inevitably extends to Simon himself again.

The immortal who survived for 14,000 years, is this what Simon Westero is suggesting?

Just like the "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" in previous years.

Because of this suspicion, some people even started to become interested in Simon's ‘biological samples’ in private.

A waitress in the family quickly reported quietly that someone offered $100,000 to buy a piece of Simon's hair.

After the death of Doris Fitcher, the Westeros family has stricter requirements for the loyalty of the maids and male bodyguards around them. In the training phase, Doris Fitcher is used as a counterexample, or, to be straightforward. , As a warning. At the same time, they promised that when someone tried to infiltrate the Westeros family through them, they would be rewarded as long as they reported it in time.

Simon is not stingy about this.

Because of these measures, from the occurrence of the Doris Fitch incident to the present, at least within the close monitoring of the Westeros family intelligence team, no betrayal incidents have been discovered. Once there is a situation, all have been reported in time, Simon Several'fishing' tests were also arranged, and all the test subjects involved passed the tests.

Of course, he didn't tell these people the truth, but directly and generously distributed a reward.

This time, it can only be said that Simon was a little bit dumbfounded.

100 thousand dollars is too small to underestimate the loyalty of the Wei family maid and guard team, and if some people contact Simon directly, he himself is quite willing to sell. Normal people have about 100,000 hairs. Normally, a haircut, a stubble is cut, and it is calculated according to a $100,000, even for Simon himself, it is a huge sum of money.

After so many years, Simon believes that his ‘biological samples’ must have been carefully studied by many secret laboratories, even he himself has done so. The conclusion reached is that Simon's personal physique is indeed superior to ordinary people, but it is far from reaching the level of'superman', which is completely within the scope of human physiology.

Such a small episode was only treated as a joke by Simon in private, and he didn't even bother to do the matter of tracing the victim.

In any case, with a strong topic, in this unpopular period at the end of February, the North American film market unexpectedly ushered in a movie-watching boom.

From February 24th to the first week of March 2nd, the seven-day performance of "This Man From Earth" finally reached 76.19 million U.S. dollars, with an average of 24,000 U.S. dollars in the museum, which was a blockbuster-level opening result.

The whole Hollywood can only express the envy of this.

Everyone understands that this success is difficult to replicate.

Because the success of this film is based on Simon’s own strong popularity aura, other studios may be able to concoct a similar story, but without the popularity of Simon Westeros, it can only make a small profit. pen.

The Gaomen Pictures publicity team had previously expected that "This Man From Earth" would have a very good opening result, but it still did not expect it to exceed $70 million in the first week.

You know, the production cost of "This Man From Earth" is only 1.5 million US dollars.

Because the film comes with a hot topic, the publicity budget invested by Gaomen Films is only 10 million US dollars, a large part of which is the copying cost of 3,107 open screens. The main publicity channel is just to let the main creators log in various late nights. Graphic posters for shows and theaters.

And as Ella Deutschman and Simon said at the time, it is used in various public relations to avoid spoilers.

The most expensive TV commercials are useless at all.

Mainly because it is difficult to cut a trailer for this movie that is neither spoiler nor appealing to the audience, so I simply don't do it.

Under this circumstance, it was the unpopular period at the end of February. The first week’s $76.19 million in painting results directly set the highest record for Hollywood’s ever-recorded films in February, and the previous data was far removed. Miracle to describe.

Under the impact of "This Man Comes From Earth", the single-week decline of "Broken Arrow" in the third week of its release expanded to 43%%, with a total of 10.17 million U.S. dollars and a cumulative box office of 52.56 million U.S. dollars.

The box office fell into the 10 million range in a single week. Whether it can continue to receive 20 million and reach the expected 70 million US dollars depends on whether the fourth week of "Broken Arrow" has narrowed again.

The other "McMullen Brothers" did not suffer too much. In the third week of its release, it fell by 25%, and then collected 2.39 million U.S. dollars. The cumulative box office was 9.56 million U.S. dollars, which is about to break 10 million.

Then, another box office week opened on March 3rd. Because the box office of "This Man Comes From Earth" broke out in the first week, many audiences who hadn't entered the theater because of the controversy of this movie would inevitably have a strong curiosity. Start buying tickets to enter the venue.

As a result, from March 3 to March 9, the weekly decline of "This Man From Earth" did not halt as many media expected, the decline was only 26%, and the next week's revenue was still as high as 56.37 million US dollars. , The cumulative box office of 132.56 million US dollars in two weeks, even surpassed the trend of many blockbuster movies.

According to this box office trend, the North American box office of "This Man From Earth" exceeds 200 million U.S. dollars without any problem, and even a sprint to the 300 million U.S. dollar threshold is not entirely impossible.